Improvement in head-rests



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Head-Rest; No. 197,382. Patented Nov. 20, 1877.

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THADDEUS LEISURE, OF BOONVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEAD-RESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,382, dated November20, 1877; application filed June 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THADDEUS LEISURE, of Boonville, in the county ofOneida and State of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Head-Rests; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to the letters and figures of referehcemarked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a back view of myhead-rest. Fig. 2 is a front View of a chair with my improved head-restapplied thereto.

The nature of,my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a head-rest for office and other chairs, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate myinvention.

A represents a part of the back of a chair. B is the head-rest,constructed in any suitable manner, and provided with a center-bar, G,to slide up and down on the chair-back A, for adjusting the head-rest atany desired height.

The center-bar C is passed through a guide fastened on the rear side ofthe chair-back, said guide being composed of two metal plates, D D, theinner ends of which are bent in angular form, fitting against the sidesand back of the center-bar O, forming a square loop for the passage ofsaid bar. The outer ends of the plates D D form elongated eyes or tubesd (1. Through these eyes or tubes are passed two spring-wire arms, G G,the upper ends of which are bent in the form of an S, and fastened onopposite sides in the bar 0 below the head-rest or these arms may bemade of one piece of spring-wire, passed through the bar O and bent oneach side thereof, to form the S springs G G, and then the ends of thewire form the arms Gr, extending downward through the eyes or tubes aton the plates D.

The springs Gr cause the arms G to have sufficient friction in the eyesat to hold the head-rest at any height and support the head, while therest can be easily and quickly adjusted to any height desired.

This adjustable head-rest is to be applied to ordinary movable chairs,substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

I am aware that a movable and adjustable head-rest frame, with aspring-frame susceptible of being attached to and removed from acar-seat, has heretofore been used, and such I do not claim as myinvention; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An attachment to ordinary sitting-chairs, consisting of the plates D D,having their inner ends bent in angular form to form a square loop, andtheir outer ends provided with eyes d, the center-barG, spring-wire armsGr G, and head-rest B, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

THADDEUS LEISURE.

Witnesses:

E. S. THOMPSON, S. A. J oHNsoN.

